Atticus : Novel, A

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Summary: A compelling story
Review: I listened to the audiotape of this book and, after about 1/2 hour I was ready to return it to the library, but I kept listening and I am glad I did, because the story took some very interesting twists and turns. Also it moved from Colorado to the Yucatan, and I have traveled extensively in Mexico and realized that the author had done his homework. I would recomend this work to anyone who appreciates drama, mystery and fine character development.

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Summary: Starts out slow but...
Review: Atticus by Ron Hansen is a book about a father named Atticus and his alcoholic son named Scott. After hearing that Scott commmited suicide Atticus flies down to Ressurecion, Mexico from his home in Colorado to get his son's body. This book starts out slow but gets better. Although this is a mystery novel sometimes this mystery is too confusing. Once Atticus makes it to Mexico there are so many different characters that are intorduced that it can be very distracting. Although there are these different distractions Ron Hansen, the author, does a good job at writing something interesting just before you think the book has gone bad. After staying a while in Mexico Atticus realizes that there is more to his son's death than he previously thought. Once Atticus reallizes this the book picks up speed and becomes more interesting. The last few chapters make this book worth reading the sometimes boring begginging of the book. Overall I give this novel 4 stars mainly becasue of the ending which is really good.

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Summary: jiba jabba
Review: The novel is about a cattle rancher from colerado who is in desperate search of his aons real identity. This search is harshly interrupted by a phone call requesting his presense in a small town in mexico called Resurection. Atticus is called down to mexico to pick up his sons body after a sudden suicide. Once he arrives in mexico he starts to investigate the reasons of the suicide and soion starts to suspect murder.
The book was well writen. It was slow in the begining while you find out all the surcomestances of what happens gbut when atticus starts snooping around the book grows more and more interesting. The book will have your stomach tied in knots by the end and i recomend it to anyone looking for a good read.

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Summary: Started out slow, but....
Review: Being a high school student this book is an option for summer reading. Out of all the choices I thought that this book sounded the most interesting, and I feel that I made the right decision. This was a very good book, and I enjoyed reading it. Luckily it was an easy book to read, and it went by fast. The book started out a little bit slow,talking about the different characters, and their backgrounds, and explaining the plot. The first chapter of the book was a bit confusing, but as soon as it moved to chapter two, Mexico, the book picked up and became very easy and fun to read. I liked how "Atticus" was a mystery, and how it made you draw conclusions, and try to figure out what was happening as you read along. While I was reading this book I tried to figure out who the murderer might be or why Scott would want to commit suicide, but then the author turns the book around and makes you think even more. At this point I was a little bit confused, and didn't really understand what had happened, but then Hansen goes on to explain the story in the last couple chapters. By the end of the book the author did a good job tying everything together, and making the reader clear on what happened. Although Hansen explains the story, and fits everything together, you are still left at the end wondering a few things, which I feel makes a good mystery. This allows the reader to try and figure out how the story really ended, and what might have really happened. This was a very good book, that started out in one direction, and then ended in a completely different spot. It kept me wanting to read, (which is very difficult to do), and it made me start to analyze the book, and try to figure out who the potential murderer was. In conclusion I feel that this book is worth your time, and I recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries.

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Summary: Atticus: Love it or Hate it
Review: If you read the review for Atticus and think that it may be an interesting book to read, read some of the book and then see what you think. I thought that the book would be interesting after reading some reviews and was I disappointed. The story of a father going to investigate his son's murder sounds good on the surface but if you dig a little deeper you will find a much different story. It is a book filled with more twists and turns than Lombard street. Nothing is what it seems and no one is who they seem. So I read the book and by the time I was finished i became more confused than when I started. People seem to enter and leave the story so much that i couldn't even follow who was in the book. Then at the end the book seems to say you can do something wrong and not be punished for it. So if a Mystery with a lot of Twists and Turns entices you, than this is the book for you but for the rest of us this is a terrible book that only seems to gain a plot in the last 2 chapters. I don't recommend this book for anyone and I think that it is the worst book that I have ever read.

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Summary: Atticus, the Exhilarating Shocker
Review: With strong, detailed character development, Ron Hansen creates an incredibly detailed story full of many shocking twists and turns. The story, which revolves around the unconditional and ever lasting love of a parent, is about a father who tries to investigate his son's mysterious, obscure suicide. It begins in Colorado, and moves to the perfect setting of Resurrección, Mexico. The great character development supported by the minute yet later important details are the strong points of the novel. Scott Cody, a former mental patient, is the ideal choice for the focus of the novel because of his complicated history, alcoholism, lack of communication with his family, and difficult to decipher personality. Although very slow in the beginning, the novel turns out to be what the reader least expects. While the ending involves many almost impossible coincidences, the novel is one of the best that I have ever read.

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Summary: As impossible as a European swallow carrying a coconut
Review: Atticus is a poorly written mystery plagued with an overabundance of useless information that has nothing to do with the actually mystery. The story starts of in a typical Colorado farm with Atticus receiving information that his son, Scott, committed suicide. After going down to Mexico to retrieve the body Atticus begins to believe that, his son may have been murdered. The initial story started well, but as the story continues, the mystery quickly becomes unrealistic with a 67 year-old farmer, a fish out of water, looking for his son's murderer in Mexico without a weapon to defend himself. The depth of each character was superficial at best, which avoids the more personal connection between the character and the reader necessary for a mystery novel to keep one from putting the book down. In addition to characters that could be replaced by statues, the book is filled with hard to understand flashbacks as well as references from the book To Kill a Mockingbird which has nothing to do with neither the characters nor the mystery itself. Although the climax does cause the reader to turn a page or two, it is quickly followed with a lengthy description bringing in clues as well as people that were never in the story to begin with. Unless you are an insomniac don't read, look, or even touch this book for you will immediately wish you didn't waste the amount of money you paid for it.

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Summary: Atticus stuck in traffic
Review: The book Atticus by Ron Hansen is a great mystery with a creative climax that builds the plot. Atticus starts off slow and the introduction is rather slow paced as well. The beginning and the end of the story reminds me of sitting in traffic because the story doesn't seem to go anywhere and once the story starts picking up, the story stops suddenly. The main character Atticus went to Mexico in search of his son who died without reason. With twists and surprises, Atticus searches for the truth about Scott's death. The only reel interesting part of the story was the climax, everything else seemed seamless and slow without direction. For example, the resolution to the story that retold what actually happened through the eyes of a different character. By this point in the book, I lost interest and felt the book ended poorly. Atticus only entertained me for a few chapters, besides that I felt like I was driving in traffic.

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Summary: The twist and turn
Review: After forcing myself to read this novel by Ron hansen titled Atticus, i found it to quite the heart racing page turner, after the first few chapters. The novel begins off rather slow, giving the reader an overveiw of the characters as well as the location and some history of the family involved. As one moves forward into the novel and reads how Atticus goes to Mexico to bury Scott, he finds some situations rather odd, Renata being one. She seems a little distant emotionally. As well as Stuart. So atticus begins to suspect murder, but does not know where to begin his search. Once i had hit this area, i sought to read further to discover the culprit. Once the novel pushes the reader further into the plot, one will not know who to blame and for which part of the plot. This novel has many twists and turns around each chapter. I suggest this book, if it wasn't already forced on you to read by Jesuit

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Summary: Worth the Time Reading?
Review: Atticus was one the many books that looks intresting to read when you read a short summary of it, but turns out to be something headed in the opposite direction. The summary found on the back of the book states "Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurrection, Mexico. When Atticus travels south to recover Scott's body, he is puzzled by what he finds there and begins to suspect murder. Illuminating those often obscure chambers of the human heart, Atticus is the story of a father's steadfast and almost unfathomable love for his son, a mystery that Ron Hansen's fiction explores with a passion and intensity no reader will be able to resist." Does this not sound like an interesting book to you? Well, the story failed to draw me into it within the first 10 or so pages, which i believe most books should. The story itself was not hard to follow but the amount of detail that Ron Hansen put into this ook was overkill. Most of its parts were long, dull and boring. Anyone who has already read the book can hopefully side with me when i say, "Chapter 6 could have been a seperate story by itself." The story seemed to have many flashbacks that were extremely hard to follow and many characters that I had a hard time keeping up with.
I guess that i kind of expected this book to be like the Hardy Boys or something along hose lines: a genuine mystery story, not overflowing with detail but enough to keep the reader interested. While reading this book, i kept saying to myself, "Why are you wasting your time reading this?" Many times I felt just like leaving on a shelf in my house and going to read another book. I guess what I am trying to say is that dont waste your time reading this book unless you fall under one of these two categories: 1)You have time to kill and are bored to death or 2) you like mystery stories that have so much detial it gives the term overkill an intensified denfinition.